Teckbahn

Wendlingen (Neckar) –Oberlenningen
Route number (DB) :	4610 4612 (old route in Kirchheim)
Course book section (DB) :	790.81 / 790.1
Route length:	17.422 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	to Kirchheim (Teck): 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	100 km / h
Legend from Plochingen 0.000 Wendlingen (Neckar) to Tübingen EnBW substation Wendlingen 3.858 Kirchheim (Teck) - Ötlingen (since 1975) 4.300 Kirchheim (Teck) -Ötlingen (until 1975) Link for freight traffic (1975-19xx) Transformatoren Union AG Grüninger & Prem iron foundry 6.465 Kirchheim (Teck) (since 1975) 6.000 Kirchheim (Teck) (1899–1975) 6.110 Kirchheim u. Teck (1864-1899) volume up 7.264 Kirchheim (Teck) South Flange factory Max Weise to Weilheim (Teck) Mosolf 8.300 Alternative connection point scrap Bosch 9,959 Dettingen (Teck) 13.287 Owen (Teck) (formerly the train station) 14.832 Bridges 15.943 Unterlenningen Scheufelen paper mill 17.422 Oberlenningen

Class 650 railcars in Kirchheim (Teck)

The Teckbahn is a standard gauge branch line in Baden-Württemberg . It branches off the Plochingen – Tübingen railway line in Wendlingen am Neckar and leads via Kirchheim unter Teck to Oberlenningen . In the course book of the Deutsche Bahn it has the number 790.81 (from Kirchheim) or 790.1 (S-Bahn to Kirchheim).

history

The 6.11 kilometer section from Wendlingen (then Unterboihingen) via Ötlingen to Kirchheim u. Teck was put into operation on September 21, 1864 as the first private railway in Württemberg . The licensed operator was the Kirchheimer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . With effect from January 1, 1899, the Royal Württemberg State Railways took over the railway, which opened the extension to Oberlenningen on October 1 of the same year. For this purpose, the Kirchheim station building , which originally - as a classic terminus station - was in frontal position behind the buffer stops , had to be rotated 90 degrees and moved slightly to the west.

On September 15, 1908, the Royal Württemberg State Railways also opened a branch line from Kirchheim to Weilheim .

Already in the interwar period there were plans to relocate the railway line between the Ötlinger entrance to the village and the Kirchheim (Teck) Süd station by a few hundred meters to the south in order to obtain additional residential and commercial space and to be able to leave the old Kirchheim train station, which is unfavorably located on a curve . For this purpose, a new reception building in Ötlingen was completed in 1939 , but not opened. Ultimately, the Second World War, which broke out in the same year, prevented further implementation of these plans.

It was not until the timetable change on September 26, 1975 that the route could be swiveled widely as planned, while Kirchheim and Ötlingen each received their new stations. Thus the Ötlinger reception building went into operation from 1939 after 36 years without use. The Teck-Center shopping center , which opened in 1978, was built on the site of the old Kirchheim train station ; the abandoned route was built over, among other things, by the relocated Stuttgarter Straße. However, the entire old line could not be abandoned because the connecting track of the Grüninger & Prem iron foundry still had to be served in this area . However, since the access ramp for the new bridge was to be built on the old route in Ötlingen along Lindorfer Strasse, a short connecting route for freight traffic also had to be built there. This has now been shut down and dismantled.

Until December 2009, regional trains operated by DB Regio AG ran on the single-track, non-electrified route ; they ran twice an hour from Wendlingen to Kirchheim and once an hour from there to Oberlenningen. In the morning and in the evening, the trains were partially tied to Plochingen . Diesel multiple units of the class 650 and locomotive-hauled trains (consisting of a diesel locomotive of the class 218 and three n-cars ) were used alternately . The vehicles were provided by DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee .

The demands to connect the Teckbahn to the Stuttgart S-Bahn network and thus to extend the S1 S-Bahn line from Plochingen via Wendlingen am Neckar to Kirchheim unter Teck had existed for a long time. After several years of planning, the Stuttgart Region Association, as the responsible body for local rail passenger transport , was finally able to conclude a construction and financing contract with Deutsche Bahn AG at the beginning of 2008. Thereafter, the line between Wendlingen and Kirchheim was electrified and modernized from July 2008 until the opening of the timetable change in December 2009, whereby two line closures were necessary during the summer holidays. In Wendlingen, a double-track extension from the Plochingen – Tübingen railway line was created, as the S-Bahn lines usually cross there and so they can stop at directional platforms. A new parking facility was created in Kirchheim to park the trains.

present

On December 13, 2009, the extension of the S1 from Plochingen to Kirchheim unter Teck was put into operation. Since then, Wernau , Wendlingen, Ötlingen and Kirchheim have been served every half hour by class 430 electric multiple units. As far as Kirchheim, the line is electrified and expanded for a top speed of 100 km / h. Kirchheim is thus a transfer station in the direction of Oberlenningen. Between Kirchheim and Oberlenningen there is an hourly service with diesel multiple units of the 650 series of the DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee . The maximum speed on this section of the route is mostly limited to 60 km / h, in the area of ​​several technically unsecured level crossings to 20 km / h.

The responsible authority for regional and S-Bahn traffic on the Teckbahn is the Verband Region Stuttgart (VRS). The section from Kirchheim to Oberlenningen is VRS's second regional connection alongside the Schusterbahn . Previously, however, the Baden-Württemberg local transport company (NVBW) was responsible for the orders on the entire route.

The route between Wendlingen and Kirchheim is secured by light signals and controlled by two signal boxes in Wendlingen and Kirchheim. The Kirchheim – Oberlenningen section is secured by train control .

Even the freight transport plays an important role on the Teck Railway. The trains run several times a day to the Scheufelen paper factory in Oberlenningen and several times a week to a scrap dealer in Dettingen unter Teck . The freight yard in Oberlenningen station is - for a branch line - relatively large. A class V 60 diesel shunting locomotive is stationed there to put new trains together and to shunt the cars.

Today, freight traffic is handled exclusively with class 294 diesel locomotives . The previously used class 218 has not been used as planned on the Teckbahn since December 11, 2009.

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  Kirchheim (Teck) railway station

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  Kirchheim (Teck) Süd stop

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  Dettingen (Teck) railway station

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  Owen (Teck) stop, formerly a train station

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  Brucken stop

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  Unterlenningen stop

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  Oberlenningen train station

Planning

Hiking maps and the eponymous Teck Castle at Owen train station

The line from Kirchheim to Oberlenningen is also to be modernized so that better connections to the S-Bahn can be established in Kirchheim. This includes increasing the maximum speed and the technical security of level crossings. However, there are no concrete plans (as of 2017).

From December 2020, four hourly gaps are to be closed with two additional pairs of trains.

The route between Waiblingen and Kirchheim (Teck) is to be integrated into the Stuttgart digital hub by 2030 and equipped with digital interlockings , ETCS and automated driving .

The Stuttgart Region Association is considering connecting the line in Wendlingen via the freight train connection with a 1.6-kilometer tunnel and then dismantling the Teckbahn in Wendlingen. In a first construction phase, the S-Bahn towards Kirchheim would be single-tracked from the open area of ​​the freight train connection. The S-Bahn track would then pass under the autobahn, drive around Wendlingen in a tunnel to the west and reach the S-Bahn route from the Neckartalbahnhof option in the Speckweg area . In a second construction stage, the direction track from Wendlingen to Kirchheim is to be pulled out of track 3 in the Wendlingen station. In the further course, the Neckar Valley Railway and a roundabout are to be crossed under Wendlingen in a tunnel to the south in order to connect to the track of the 1st construction stage southwest of Wendlingen. For an optional express S-Bahn, a connection between the Große Wendlinger curve and the freight train connection is planned. The connection would be made with two switches and a 320-meter-long track with open lines. Other plans envisage integration into a regional train to Göppingen.

The platforms at Oberlenningen station and at Owen stop are to be rebuilt.

literature

• Peter-Michael Mihailescu, Matthias Michalke: Forgotten railways in Baden-Württemberg . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0413-6 , p. 197-200 .

Web links

• Location, course as well as some signals and permissible speeds of the route on the OpenRailwayMap
• Course book - Teckbahn timetable

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eisenbahn.wikia.com
2. ^ Opening dates from: Horst-Werner Dumjahn: Handbook of German Railway Lines: Opening dates 1835-1935, route lengths, concessions, ownership structure . Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 .
3. ↑ 150 years of the railway in Ötlingen , article in Der Teckbote , published on September 19, 2014
4. ↑ kbs761.synology.me
5. ^ S-Bahn to Kirchheim unter Teck. (No longer available online.) Verband Region Stuttgart, archived from the original on July 26, 2011 ; Retrieved January 1, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ S-Bahn website of the Stuttgart Region Association (task authority), see Projects, Teckbahn
7. ↑ Teckbahn expansion in connection with the bus-rail concept  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
8. ↑ Further improvements for the S-Bahn. In: region-stuttgart.org. Verband Region Stuttgart , July 9, 2020, accessed on July 9, 2020 . 
9. ^ Jens Bergmann: Digital node Stuttgart. (PDF) Declaration by DB Netz AG on content and objectives. DB Netz, April 21, 2020, pp. 3, 5 , accessed on April 24, 2020 . 
10. ^ Verband Region Stuttgart : Session No. 173/2013 Transport Committee on February 20, 2013 for resolution - Public session. On agenda item 2: Neuhausen S-Bahn (PDF file, 1.2 MB). P. 8.
11. ↑ Expansion and new line Stuttgart - Augsburg: Wendlingen - Ulm area: Plan approval section 2.1 a / b Wendlingen - Kirchheim: Annex 1 Explanatory report Part II: Documentation of the alternative and variant decision of the Wendlingen-Ulm NBS . Munich December 5, 2008, p. 69 f., 83 ( PDF file , 6 MB).
12. ↑ Thomas Schorradt: New chance for old railway line? In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. August 17, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Planning approval according to § 18 Abs. 1 AEG i. V. m. Section 74 (6) VwVfG for the project "Kleine Teckbahn - new building at Oberlenningen station" in the municipality of Lenningen in the Esslingen am Neckar district, railway km 17.3 + 65 to 17.5 + 00 on the line 4610 Wendlingen - Oberlenningen. (PDF) Federal Railway Office, October 30, 2019, p. 9 , accessed on December 28, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Determination of the omission of an environmental impact assessment (UVP) according to §5 Environmental Impact Assessment Act (UVPG) for the project "Kleine Teckbahn -Newbau Haltpunkt Owen", railway km 13.200 to 13.500 of the line 4610 Wendlingen - Oberlenningen in Owen (Teck). (PDF) In: eba.bund.de. Federal Railway Office, June 18, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019 .